Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — Poverty of the Mexicans. [ARTICLE]

Poverty of the Mexicans.

Denver Times. The poverty of the poor of Mexico is extreme, and the conditions of the lower class of laborers must be dreadful, and you see them doing work only done by horses elsewhere, and loads carried on burros which, in other countries, are carried on wheels. Blockß of a peculiar building stone are brought into the city on the backs of those patient creatures, so that even the poor burro is not exempt from sharing the condition of his owner. No wonder buildings go up slowly here. You see the men carry lumber, heave boxes, poles, and nearly always on the trot. Even the dead are carried to their burial and yesterday I witnessed on the plaza a relay of carriers. while the burden was being shifted to fresh shoulders. Two or three woraqn and some children stood around while the exchange was being made. The coffin, it is presumed, represented the hearse. They have here on their street railroads a funeral car, capable at accommodating the coffin and a number of mourners, which is, I think, an idea well worthy of imitation. The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the Duke of Westminster, if he lives to inherit his patrimony, will be the richest man in the world. By the time he attains his majority his income will amount to between 4|10.000 and $20,000 A day.